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[โ€“] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 75 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Is this called "Masking"?

I recently heard about "masking" and thought it was something everyone did.

[โ€“] qwrty@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

To a certain extent yeah. Everyone "masks" in a sense that they may show different parts of themselves to different people, or act differently around different people. You save the weirdness to your friends and family and present a more "normal" image to strangers and acquaintances.

However, for neurodivergent people, masking is much more extensive and hides different things. Often these people will hide their autism, ADHD, etc. from everyone or most people. There is considerable effort to hide their symptoms.

Neurotypical people hide the fact they like mayo on pizza while Neurodivergent people hide the fact they struggle to understand facial expressions or social cues.

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